Gilbert & Sullivan: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Isidore Godfrey, conductor

Recorded in 1949
Digital transfer by F. Reeder


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Keywords: Gilbert & Sullivan; G&S; D'Oyly Carte; operetta; light opera

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Gilbert & Sullivan: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (1949)

Major-General - MARTYN GREEN
Pirate King - DARRELL FANCOURT
Samuel - DONALD HARRIS
Frederic - LEONARD OSBORN
Sergeant - RICHARD WATSON
Mabel - MURIEL HARDING
Edith - JOAN GILLINGHAM
Kate - JOYCE WRIGHT
Ruth - ELLA HALMAN

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Isidore Godfrey, conductor

ACT I
Overture
Pour, O pour the pirate sherry
When Frederic was a little lad
Oh, better far to live and die
Oh, false one, you have deceived me!
Climbing over rocky mountain
Stop, ladies, pray!
Oh, is there not one maiden breast
Poor wand’ring one!
What ought we to do
How beautifully blue the sky
Stay, we must not lose our senses
Hold, monsters!
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
You may go, for you're at liberty

ACT II
Oh, dry the glist’ning tear
Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted
When a foeman bears his steel
Now for the pirates’ lair!
When you had left our pirate fold
Away, away! my heart’s on fire
All is prepared
Stay, Fred’ric, stay!
Ah, leave me not to pine
Oh, here is love, and here is truth
No, I am brave!
When a felon’s not engaged in his employment
A rollicking band of pirates we
With cat-like tread
Hush, hush! not a word
Sighing softly to the river
Now what is this, and what is that
We triumph now
We yield at once, with humbled mien

London 45rpm set LGF-7 (40025 - 40035)
Recorded in 1949
Digital transfer by F. Reeder

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